As the first snow of the season fell in Seoul early Monday, weather officials issued a snow warning for the central Korean peninsula as developing clouds are forecast to bring more snowfall within a few hours.

Korea Meteorological Administration said heavy clouds developing in the Yellow Sea are expected to bring a large amount of snow to Seoul and its peripheral areas.k The administration said the Yellow Sea (West Sea) is the body of water between China and the Korean peninsula.

The weather agency said Seoul and Gyeonggi Province had 4 centimeters of snowfall as of 7 a.m. and an additional 2 to 6 centimeters are expected before noon.

The western parts of the Jeolla provinces and eastern North Gyeongsang Province will have less than 3 centimeters of snowfall during the day with a 30 to 80 percent chance of snow, the agency said.

Weather officials said the mercury will go up on Tuesday with morning lows of around minus 9 to 1 degrees Celsius nationwide. During the daytime, temperatures will rise to 4 to 9 degrees, it added, but morning lows for the next few days will stay below zero.